USURJ
University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Pathways Archaeology and Anthropology Graduate Journal will be looking for submissions and peer reviewers for our next volume, opening for submissions in 2021! ...This is an awesome opportunity to refine your writing skills, boost your CV, and get to know the publishing process. Keep us in mind when you’re writing your term papers and assignments for class, or if you have exciting writing or findings emerging in your research. Take a look at the attached poster for more information.

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It's finally reading break! Time to catch up on USURJ's latest publication by Ashley Vols (who graduated today, CONGRATULATIONS Ashley!) It's an interesting paper about the call for multiculturalism in a Canadian context, a very prevalent issue in politics at the moment. Give it a read and let us know what you think! This review looks at the current literature within Indigenous and newcomer relationships under the contemporary Canadian multicultural framework. The ever-incre...asing prevalence of Indigenous social movements and instances of cross-continental migration position the topic at the forefront of social policy since the inception of multiculturalism as a governmental policy in the 1970s. Traditional multiculturalism positions newcomer populations in support of the ongoing formation of the Canadian settler state due to factors of misinformation and hierarchized measures of a newcomer group’s ability to successfully integrate. Considerable efforts are required to diminish the discursive gap between the historically oppressed social groups. The literature posits structural change within the theory of critical multiculturalism to support nuanced binationalism and increased instances of social interaction. These efforts are required to facilitate a potentially transformative relationship between each group in relation to the greater multicultural project. #undergraduatereseacrh #undergraudate #reseacrh #openaccess

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See you soon, folks!

Are you a student curious about publishing? Then you won't want to miss the SURE (Student Undergraduate Research Experience) roundtable event with our Senior Editors! Drop by using the link in our bio to learn more about publishing with the USURJ and ask our team any questions you may have. If you can't make it, no problem! You can always email us your questions [email protected] Meeting Info: https://usask.webex.com/usask/j.php Meeting number: 145 071 5549... Password: SURE2020 Join by phone +1-306-808-2023 Canada Toll (Saskatoon) 1-855-966-1197 North America Toll Free Access code: 145 071 5549 #undergraduate #undergraduateresearch #reserach #roundtable #openaccess

Looking for an interesting paper to read this week? Check out this one by Eunice B Quagraine about the neurodevelopmental changes that occur in the offspring of opioid-dependent pregnant women. Link in our bio! https://doi.org/10.32396/usurj.v5i2.369 The number of infants born to opioid-dependent pregnant women in North America is a growing problem. Studies that focus on the long-term effects of neurodevelopmental changes of prenatal opioid exposure in human infants are howev...er limited. The use of rodent models to evaluate these changes may provide some insight. This review focuses on studies of rodent models exposed to opioids such as morphine, heroin, oxycodone, buprenorphine, methadone, and l--acetylmethadol in uteroand briefly discusses the neural and behavioural effects in human children. Most of the rodent studies reported the following neural effects: increases in caspase-3 and Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, altered NMDA activity, and decreases in BDNF expression in the offspring prenatally exposed to opioids. In addition, they showed decreases in synaptic plasticity, LTP, LTD, dendritic length, and dendritic branch number. The exposed rodent offspring were more inclined to perform poorly in the behavioural tests. Likewise, some of the human studies reported a significant difference between the exposed group and the control; however, other studies reported insignificant or no significant differences after correcting for covariates. Most of the studies suggest an impairment in learning and memory in the rodent offspring and deficits in behaviour and cognition in human children; however, this was not always the case. It is still not clear whether the effects of prenatal opioid exposure are due to the opioid itself being the prime factor, as various factors may also contribute to the results. Further studies of the effects of early opioid exposure on neurodevelopment in the offspring are required. #undergraduateresearch #undergraduate #research #scholarlypublishing #opiodcrisis

Drake knows what's up Hope you enjoyed this meme reposted from @cheryltheory! It's midterm season which means it's especially important to take time for yourself and destress whether that's reading some papers from the USURJ website, scrolling through Instagram memes or talking to your friends and family! #undergraduateresearch #usask #journal #researchmemes #drake